Principal Investigator

Saurav Agarwal

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay

Office: S01-A
E-mail: saurav [dot] agarwal [at] iitb.ac.in

Research interests include the development of large-scale decentralised and collaborative intelligent systems, enabling robot teams to operate cohesively through advanced environmental perception, inter-robot communication, and coordinated actions.
Ph.D. research introduced a unified framework for generalised coverage of point, curve, and area features in environments, formalised as graph-based optimisation problems. The framework grounds approximation algorithms with provable guarantees and fast heuristics for large-scale problems, validated in extensive simulations and real-world experiments.
Additionally, interests span the design and analysis of mechanisms and parallel robots using optimisation techniques, along with symbolic algebra systems, open-source library development, project leadership, and student mentorship.


PhD Scholars

Brijesh Kumar Yadav

Brijesh Kumar Yadav

Jitesh Gaharwal

Mate Sonali Dinkar

Master's Researchers

Ananna Biswas

Ankit Rathod

Meet Halpati

Piyush Gawane

Undergraduate Researchers

Ajitesh Joshi

Anusha Dhale

Anusha Dhale

Pratusha Pudakalkatti

Tejas Narkhede

Tejas Narkhede